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EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Put your sewing skills to work making custom window dressings that reflect your personal style. From calculating yardage to selecting appropriate fixtures and hardware, expert sewing instructor Rebecca Yaker guides your through the entire process. You'll learn how to choose fabric, pick the length that works for your windows, and even add linings for better shaping and increased privacy. Tab top or tie top, rod pocket or grommets, custom-made curtains bring fresh appeal to your windows.
Synopsis
Rebecca Yaker, co-author of the best-selling One-Yard Wonders, offers this complete introduction to making your own curtains, covering everything from measuring to calculating yardage, choosing the best fabrics, sewing your curtains, adding linings, and selecting the right fixtures and hardware for hanging. She includes step-by-step instructions for making five different curtain styles: pleats, eyelets, tab tops, tie tops, and rod pockets.
About the Author
Rebecca Yaker began sewing at age five. After eight years of designing apparel for two of America’s largest retailers, she started her own design business, creating one-of-a-kind baby bedding and apparel in her Minneapolis design studio. She is a hand- and machine-knitter, and she crochets, weaves, does fabric printing, and consults on design. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Moscow State Linguistics University, doing work in Russian Languages and Literature. Yaker is co-author of both One-Yard Wonders and Fabric-by-Fabric One-Yard Wonders.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Window Dressings
Anatomy of a Window - Window Coverings Defined
Chapter Two: From the Top Down
Fixtures and Hardware - Heading Styles
Chapter Three: Fabrics, Lengths, and Linings
Choosing Your Fabric - Classic Curtain Lengths - Types of Lining
Chapter Four: Measuring Up
Taking Accurate Window Measurements - Structural Elements of Curtains
Chapter Five: Calculating Yardage
Curtain Fullness - Curtain Width - Curtain Length - Matching Pattern Repeats
Chapter Six: A Few Basic Techniques
Finishing Edges - Seam Variations - Using Curtain Weights - Adding Lining
Chapter Seven- Sewing Your Curtains
Unlined Rod Pocket Curtains - Lined Rod Pocket Curtains - Tab Top and Tie Top Curtains - Hidden Tab Curtains - Grommet Top Curtains - Instant No-Sew Curtains - Fabric Tiebacks
Metric Conversion Charts
Index